Megaman Excel
By: Metal Sonic EX
Disclaimer: I do not own the Megaman X series. Nor do I own Megaman Legends, Megaman Legends 2, or The Misadventures of Tron Bonne. I don't own them now, and I won't anytime soon. However, I do own some of the Mavericks' attacks. Those are mine.
In this chapter, Megaman goes solo and squares off with the Zero Nightmare. Then, Zero and Megaman will encounter the Nightmare's 'lesser known' form. Obviously, there are two battles in this chapter, one with the Nightmare (X6), and one with a virus (X5). Also, I'm very happy because my first ever review came from this fanfic. So, I'm going to start working harder on this one, meaning I might not update my others for a while. So, for now, here's chapter eleven!
Chapter XI
The Ultimate Nightmare
The cloaked figure chuckled again as a few people backed up. "How sad. High Max was killed by the same thing that he was supposed to be investigating. Hehehe." Zero stepped forward. "Is there something funny?" The figure continued to chuckle. "Why, yes there is." He looked at the group of humans.
"Look at them, Zero. Such pathetic creatures. And yet, they managed to create such magnificent beings like us. But, when we served our usefulness, they forgot about us. We were thrown aside like last night's garbage. And yet, some of us continue to be loyal. Why? Why should we protect them when they discarded us? The answer is simple. We shouldn't! There isn't a reason in hell that we should treat them any better than they've treated us! Why do you and Trigger continue to protect them when it's inevitable that they discard us over again? Why, Zero! Answer me!"
A few people backed up quite a few feet at this outburst, but Zero stood his ground. "I'll tell you why. It's the right thing to do." The stranger seemed surprised at this, but he soon began laughing his head off. "The right thing to do! Zero, they've discarded us! Forgotten us! They sit wide open to any attack we can muster and they've got no one to blame for this but themselves!" Zero's eyes narrowed. "That's the point. We're here to stop psychos like you."
The figure grinned evilly. "Think what you want, Zero. The truth is there and you'll see it soon enough." Megaman walked up to Zero's side as Zero passed him his saber. "What's this for?" Zero looked at him. "I was 'dead' when you fought him. I'd no doubt wide up missing a limb or two if I fought him solo. That's why he's yours." Megaman started. "You expect me to win against that!" The figure chuckled yet again. "Yes, Zero. You expect him to win? It sounds like you've taken your duties a bit far. Sending Trigger to his death. It seems that you don't know what a Maverick is anymore."
Zero got ticked. "I know what a Maverick is! It's someone who talks like you, for one thing!" The figure smirked. "Really now? Blast Hornet… Squid Adler… Duff McWhalen… Dark Dizzy… Where they all truly Mavericks? Or where they appointed Mavericks by what you thought? You see, Zero. You've been slaughtering innocent Reploids. Sure they were a bit hyper, but did that make them Mavericks? They were sentenced to death because of your…" Zero's face grew a bright crimson. "I've had it, you bastard! You can take those thoughts and ideals of yours to the grave with you!"
The figure's smirk grew. "Temper temper. You know what happens when your blood pressure rises. Besides, Trigger is supposed to fight me, remember?" Zero's fists clenched in anger. "As much as I'd love to hurt you, I'm letting Megaman handle this one. But rest assured, first sign of trouble and I'm jumping in." The figure laughed. "Oh joy." He reached up, gripped his cloak, and hurled it off his body, causing everyone except Zero to gasp on horror. The figure looked like an exact copy of Zero, just with inverted colors.
Mission Objective
Defeat the Zero Nightmare
"I'm going to enjoy ripping you in half!"
Mission Start!
(Boss Theme)
(Megaman X6 (Playstation) - Zero Nightmare Theme begins playing)
(Zero Nightmare's Health)
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Without giving Megaman a chance to move, the Nightmare fired two buster shots followed by a slash with the saber which sent a projectile blade forward. Megaman dodged this all only to have the Nightmare repeat the procedure. After that, the Nightmare dashed towards Megaman. "Eliminate!" The Nightmare reached back and slashed the air with his saber, just barely missing Megaman's leg as he dodged the attack. As the Nightmare replaced the saber, he chuckled. "Not bad, purifier! But not good enough!"
He spliced out of existence and soon spliced back right in front of Megaman. He didn't see this coming so he was thrown backwards. The Nightmare raised his fist into the air as Megaman stood up. "Royga!" As the Nightmare slammed his fist into the ground, a line of buster rose from the ground both in front and on either side of him. He repeated this procedure and Megaman finally got close enough to slash him with the saber.
(A.N. I'm not making this up. In Megaman X6, the Zero Nightmare's weakness is the Z Saber. Nothing fancy, just a slash with the Z Saber and that's it.)
(Zero Nightmare's Health)
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Immediately, the Nightmare turned into a bunch of pink static. "AH! Curse you, hunter!" After a few seconds, he spliced out and back into existence. This time, he was near where the Flutter was docked. He fired two buster shots followed by a saber slash, two more buster shots, and another saber slash. He then dashed forward again. "Eliminate!" This time, Megaman got fancy. He grabbed both the saber from the Falcon Armor and the saber Zero had given him and brought them down in sort of an X shape. He then brought them both up the same way.
(Zero Nightmare's Health)
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When the Nightmare reappeared, his face had a bit of a quarrel with T Breaker. This attack nearly threw the Nightmare off of the island. Megaman paused and looked at Zero. "I didn't know that I was in trouble." Zero looked back at him with an unintentionally cold gaze. "You're not. I just felt like giving this loser a piece of my mind." The Nightmare recovered and dashed past Zero before he turned around. As the Nightmare was about to splice out of existence, Zero slammed T Breaker into his side, then his other side, and finally smashed him into the ground.
(Zero Nightmare's Health)
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Zero looked at Megaman. "Trigger! Now!" Megaman nodded and threw his hands back as Zero did the same.
Execute Falcon Armor Megaman/ Zero Double Attack
(Zero Nightmare's Health)
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(Near Death Attack - Deadly Barrage)
The Nightmare reappeared near the Flutter as he shot two buster shots and slashed with the saber. "Let's see you survive THIS!" The Nightmare released a large barrage of buster shots from his… well… buster. There were so many that the human group had to duck as the wall grew several craters by having the shots hit them. The Nightmare dashed towards Megaman again as he slashed him one more time.
(Zero Nightmare's Health)
None
(Megaman X6 (Playstation) - Zero Nightmare Theme fades out)
The Zero Nightmare froze in place, but, instead of exploding, he became that pink bunch of static again. "Curse you, hunters! Curse you all!" The Zero Nightmare then broke apart and released several balls of pinkish virus into the air. Zero and Megaman lowered there weapons. "Well, that was easier than I thought." Megaman tossed Zero's saber to him and T Breaker disappeared.
Suddenly, all of Nino Island became swallowed in a black darkness. "What in the…" Suddenly, some familiar chuckling was heard and Zero tensed up. "Oh, come on!" The Zero Nightmare reappeared, this time looked more like a virus-like version of Zero. Zero started. "The Zero Virus!" The Nightmare chuckled. "Of course. It's true that I was created by Gate. But he used the Zero Virus to do that. He manipulated it, so to speak." Zero clenched his fists. "I'm sick of this! We're ending this now!" The Nightmare chuckled. "So eager to die… Eh, Zero?"
(Megaman X6 (Playstation) - Sigma Battle #1 begins playing)
(Zero Virus's Health)
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The Nightmare fired two buster shots which moved much slower than when he wasn't a virus. Then, he slashed with his saber and dashed towards Megaman. He quickly reacted by slashed him with the saber from the Falcon Armor. The Nightmare went 'AGH!' and disappeared. He reappeared not-to-far away from Zero. He repeated this procedure only to be attacked with D Glaive. Again, the Nightmare disappeared again as Megaman's armor turned purple.
"Quick! Just fire it!" Megaman hesitated because when his armor became purple, a huge cursor appeared in front of him. "Trigger! Any time now!" Megaman snapped back to reality and shot the Nightmare just as he dashed forward. A green laser shot out and it rapidly drained the Nightmare's health.
(Zero Virus's Health)
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"ACK! Cursed hunters!" With the help of Banner, Roll located the door and managed to get back into the Parabola. "You know how to work this thing?' Roll nodded. "I've fired it three times. I'm pretty sure that I do." She fired again and got tremendous results.
(Zero Virus's Health)
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Everyone seemed surprised about this and Zero explained. "This is the Nightmare's pure virus form! Using the Parabola temporarily separated his data, almost scattering the virus altogether!" Roll went to fire it again, however… "Of all times to break down! Why now?" Back in the battle, the Nightmare was getting angry. He raised his fist and slammed it into the ground. "Royga!" Several buster shots rose from the ground, but at a much slower pace than last time. When this attack was over, Megaman fired a fully-charged laser at the Nightmare.
(Zero Virus's Health)
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(Near Death Attack - Deadly Barrage)
The Nightmare attacked with the same barrage that he'd used earlier. Once this was dodged, Zero attacked him once with D Glaive and Megaman fired the final laser. (In case you're wondering, the weapon's name is Aiming Laser from X4.)
(Zero Virus's Health)
None
The Zero Nightmare began turning into static again as the darkness subsided. "You fools! You can't stop us! The carbons WILL fall, you'll see! You'll all see!" With that the Zero Nightmare let forth his final cry of pain and he evaporated into thin air, leaving behind a large, floating, glowing blue sphere. "This is a Nightmare Soul. The things that Dynamo was talking about. There's only one use for this now." Zero brought back Z Saber and he slashed the energy in half. It too evaporated.
Barrell finally recovered to look at his old friend. "Well? How's that for a first encounter?" Von Bleucher chuckled weakly. "It's interesting to say the least." Barrell nodded in agreement as Banner and Roll returned to the group. "So, where to next?" Zero shrugged. "I dunno. I guess only time will tell."
Remember the two figures who were conversing about someone two chapters ago? That someone will be revealed in the next chapter. As a matter of fact, in the next chapter, Kattelox Island gets an answer to an old question and a troublesome duo reappears. I might have trouble figuring out the duo's moves 'cause I haven't played their game in o long, but I'll try. Until then, Read and Review or I'll turn you into a steamed bowl of mashed taters!